French Start-Ups Worry About Hollande's Priorities

By

Ben Rooney

May 9, 2012 7:25 p.m. ET

New administrations are times of both optimism and uncertainty, and France's new breed of digital entrepreneurs are watching closely how President-elect François Hollande is going to help them; many are skeptical.

Not, say many of Paris's start-ups, that he has that difficult an act to follow. "My experience with [President] Sarkozy was that in the first four years [of Mr. Sarkozy's presidency] most of his measures were about regulation and considering the Internet as an enemy," said Tariq Krim, the pensive...